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painstaking

[peynz-tey-king, peyn-stey-] / ˈpeɪnzˌteɪ kɪŋ, ˈpeɪnˌsteɪ- /


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The challenge for management, directors and investors is to have patience through this painstaking process while simultaneously kicking the tires and asking all the right questions during the building process.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

As the jeweler quietly continued working on the white-gold-and-platinum bracelet, hole by painstaking hole, she was interrupted by an observer, a compact 58-year-old man.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

Webb did so by embodying professional excellence, constructing his cases with analytical rigor, painstaking research, and courage.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Metro board member Fernando Dutra said the agency had been working through a painstaking process to bring systems back online, an effort that continues.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026

If the mutation rate is too high, we lose the inheritance of four billion years of painstaking evolution.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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